(???) pov
Thinking about the feeling inside me I suddenly hear a voice behind me.
"You don't have to do anything anymore. "
I turn around and see a big papa. He is the husband of a big mom. He is an elderly man dressed in an old suit and in his hands he holds a shotgun. Next to him stand his two sons . They help keep the peace around the pawn shop by working as security guards. However, even though they work as security it is not because of them that the neighborhood is safe.
'Big mama and big papa. '
'Both two are former mafia bosses but after they fell in love they gave up their positions and retired.'
'Which means they have two crime families behind them '
'Maybe not as big as a xiong or a spider'
' 'But big enough so that no one bothers them.
At the moment of my thoughts, a pink mouse comes to my side and stares at the old man.
"Nice job kids."
The eldest son smiles at us. The girl next to me pleased with the praise shows her confident smile.
"Copper our job is to keep our streets safe".
"However, due to our negligence, our client was in trouble".
The younger son says to the older Copper.
"Enough guys "
"Let's get him out of here and get rid of him ".
Says the big papa walking up to the man on the ground. Being next to the pervert he looks at me. I nod and make the hands that hold the man on the ground retract back.
"Hel....!!!"
The poor guy can't finish, because Big Papa knocks his teeth out with the butt of his gun.
"Come on boys!"
When Big Papa says so his sons walk up to the guy, who lies sobbing in his own blood they lift him up and drag him out of the alley by his clothes.
"Sorry girls!"
says Big Papa, as if addressing his granddaughters.
"Why don't I give you girls a ride home? "
Big Papa asks. And to my partner's surprise I answer.
"Thank you "
Big papa smiles and moves off in the direction his sons went. I slowly follow him when I feel a tug on my sleeve. I turn around and see a pink girl looking at me.
"If you want to trust someone it's the big papa."
The girl nods and follows us, but I can tell she's ready to run away.
'She thinks it's a trap '.
'I don't surprise her after all the spider syndicate is chasing her all over the city. '
Emerging from the alley, I see a black car with tinted windows.
Two brothers are stuffing the body of an unconscious guy into the trunk.
Paying no attention to anything, I climb into the middle of the back seat. The pink-haired girl sits uncertainly next to me on the right side.
"Relax, if I wanted to hand you over to a spider I would have already done it ".
I say simply the girl looks like she is about to start fighting. Somehow I had to calm her down. Just as I thought, she sits more calmly, but she is alert all the time. Then both brothers get into the car.
Copper sits in the front seat on the right side, and his younger brother next to me on the left. Big Papa sits behind the wheel. And off we go.
"So you're a new friend of Kuru.... "
Before copper can finish big papa coughs loudly to silence his son.
The pawn shop family knows my real name. It is because of trust that I have been working with them for several months. Also, big mom treats me as her own granddaughter. A good contact with the pawn family gives me contacts for the future. Copper understood what he almost did and looks at me with an apologetic look.
"So you're a friend of our client."
After a moment Copper speaks again.
"Maybe the miss next to you said something about us but let me introduce myself ".
"I'm Copper and the quiet one is my brother Ash".
The pink-haired girl next to me doesn't respond just thinks about something. Due to her lack of response an awkward silence falls in the car. From this silence we are pulled out by big papa
"So where to take the young lady ? "
Says papa turning to the girl next to me who was thinking about something. The pink-haired girl is pulled out of her thoughts and looks at big papa.
"She is.... "
"A mute "
Papa finishes this sentence for me
"I guessed it. "
Big Papa says.
The girl next to me pulls a notebook out of her pocket and writes down the address. She pulls out a piece of paper and passes it forward. The Copper picks up the paper and hands it to his father.
"Okay for now we stop here and the boys take out the trash."
As big papa speaks he drives off the street and enters the park.
Pov Neo
'The guy had a gun and two more people next to him. '
'I thought that was the end of it.'
'However, the girl next to me is right why should she sell me to the syndicate and why now.'
Puzzled, I heard Big Papa's voice asking for my address.
'He doesn't seem surprised that I'm a mute. '
'Then again, strangers are more understanding than my own family. '
In response, I wrote the address in my notebook. Driving in the car, it turned out that the big papa and his sons are really good people as long as we don't talk about how they smashed the guy's face threw him in the trunk and are now taking him to the park.
'However, my partner has many secrets.
'This pawn shop and her in what kind of relationship they are '.
'Family, friends of the family'
'I'm not stupid guy named Copper almost said her name. '
'The fact that they know her name means she trusts them more than me. '
'Kuru '
'I can't put the rest of the name together '.
'The fact that I've never heard such a name doesn't help in putting the rest together. '
When I think of my partner's name the car stops in front of a pond.
"Quick boys!"
Big papa said putting on black leather gloves . His sons do the same. Me and the black-haired girl stay in the car. I look through the rear window and see that all three have masks
'Why so much caution'
'Aren't we in the middle of a park without cameras'
"Drones"
The girl replies looking ahead.
"The police like to release drones into the city once in a while"
"Because killings are common in the vale"
"The police don't care about thefts as long as you don't do it in front of their eyes. "
"Same with drugs, guns, dust and anything else illegal "
" as long as the gang can bribe the police they can do it even in front of their eyes ".
"The police just don't want to look for one person in the whole vale. "
"But murder is another matter "
"That's why anyone who can't afford to buy the police are paranoid about burying bodies "
"And that's so there's no panic "
"Serial killer or grimm"
"People will choose the worst-case scenario and so in order that there is no panic the police in the vale are extremely active in looking for murderers. "
The black-haired girl slowly speaks and it seems to make sense.
'Even if the vale kingdom is no besieged by the Grimms it doesn't mean they aren't there. '
"And a body in the capital can cause panic so the police must find the culprit.
My thoughts are interrupted by a muffled gunshot and the sloshing of water.
'They just killed him like that and threw the body into the pond.'
I'm not frightened I just puzzled.
'They may know the black-haired girl but not me '.
'I can turn them in to the police'
"Big papa knows how to judge character and it looks like he trusts you ".
The girl looks at me and at that moment Papa, Ash and Copper get back in the car. And as if nothing they drive away on the road no one says anything when we get to the address I gave.
"Be careful, it's late."
Big papa says goodbye. I look at the only girl in the car who is currently waving to me.
"Tomorrow at the same time the same place ".
She says as the black car slowly drives away. However, I have one question in my mind.
'Who are the people from the pawn shop '.
'They are closer to the stereotypical mafia with the style in how they work '.
'A pawn shop undercover and really a place to exchange stolen jewelry.'
'They even have a big mom and a big papa '
I slowly turns around and heads to the location of my hideout which is two minutes away.
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The vacations are coming to an end. Chapters will still be updated however they will not be daily. I will try to publish every day but I don't know what life will bring me. Even if there are no daily updates there will always be two or three chapters a week.